How to find integrals of parent functions without any horizontal/vertical shift?

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TL;DR Summary: How to find integrals of parent functions without any horizontal/vertical shift?

Say you were given the equation :
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How would you find :
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with a calculator that can only add, subtract, multiply, divide

Is there a general formula?
 
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You have a function of the form Cxp where p ≠ -1.
The integral is Cxp+1/(p+1)
 
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The difficulty here is to compute (adequate approximations to) 9^{1/7} and 14^{8/7} = 14 \cdot 14^{1/7} using "a calculator that can only add, subtract, multiply, divide".
 
pasmith said:
The difficulty here is to compute (adequate approximations to) 9^{1/7} and 14^{8/7} = 14 \cdot 14^{1/7} using "a calculator that can only add, subtract, multiply, divide".
1261/7≈1281/7=2
One could then do the polynomial expansion (2-x)7=126 and throw away higher terms to find corrections. Or do some iteration.
 
There are two things I don't understand about this problem. First, when finding the nth root of a number, there should in theory be n solutions. However, the formula produces n+1 roots. Here is how. The first root is simply ##\left(r\right)^{\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)}##. Then you multiply this first root by n additional expressions given by the formula, as you go through k=0,1,...n-1. So you end up with n+1 roots, which cannot be correct. Let me illustrate what I mean. For this...

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